Abigail Perez Aguilera
Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management
Email
perezagd@newschool.edu
Office Location
H - 72 Fifth Avenue
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Dr. Abigail Perez Aguilera is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management at The New School. Her most recent work is titled “Affective Multi-Species Resistance as Radical Imaginations” to be published in an edited volume by Bloomsbury in 2023. As part of her research she will published the article “The End of Nature and the Human: A Global South Ecofeminist Approach to the Anthropocene” in the edited volume titled “Critical Environmental Reflections in the Anthropocene: Making Sense of Nature” to be published in 2024 by Taylor and Francis. She has co-authored the following articles; “Decolonize, ReIndigenize: Planetary Crisis, Biocultural Diversity, Indigenous Resurgence and Land Rematriation” (2021) in the edited volume Contesting Extinctions: Critical Relationality, regenerative futures. Recently, she co-organized a panel discussion titled “Uncommon Collaborations: Bringing Humanities and Sciences Together for Planetary Healing (II) for the Biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE). This panel was part of her work for the Humanities for the Environment Latin American Observatory Panel. As part of the panel, she presented a paper titled “Mapping the Body-Territory to Restore the Commons: A Multidisciplinary Approach from Latin America” in August of 2022, she presented a paper titled “Cuerpo-Territorio and Multispecies Cosmopolitics" at the Earth Crisis and the Global Environmental Movement conference hosted by the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management at The New School, based on her current research on land-body entanglements and decolonial approaches to critical geographies. She has spoken on panels about decolonial feminisms, radical imaginations and environmental justice. In 2022, she spoke in a panel titled Indigenous Futures organized by Columbia Climate School, and in November of 2022, she spoke at the Jahadee Sisters Summit Love We More where she spoke about decolonization, radical imaginations and Global South feminisms. She has been invited as a lecturer at Humboldt State University, and Northern Arizona University.
Future Courses
Ecofeminism and Global Justice
UGLB 3601, Spring 2025
Gendered Ecologies
NEPS 6003, Fall 2024
Migration, Environment, Cimate
NEPS 5032, Fall 2024
Toxicity, Ecology & Health
NEPS 5029, Spring 2025
Water Ecologies & Justice
NEPS 5030, Spring 2025
Past Courses
Ecofeminism and Global Justice
UENV 3601, Spring 2024
Ecofeminism and Global Justice
UGLB 3601, Spring 2024
Gendered Ecologies
NEPS 6003, Fall 2023
Independent Study
NEPS 6900, Fall 2023
Toxicity, Ecology & Health
NEPS 5029, Spring 2024
Water Ecologies & Justice
NEPS 5030, Spring 2024